An anthropologist has dusted off the bones suspected of belonging to MK courier Lolo Sono, who is suspected of having been killed on the orders of Winnie Mandela.
Sono's family prayed before his exhumation at Avalon cemetery in Soweto. He, along with fellow courier Siboniso Tshabalala, was allegedly killed after being accused of spying for the apartheid regime.
Mandela testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee that she didn't know the fate of the two, despite Sono's father's testimony that he had last seen his son in a badly beaten state in her company.
"The two young men, who served as couriers for Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), disappeared on 13 and 14 November 1988, respectively," the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and Government Communication and Information System said.
It was established that two bodies with multiple stab wounds were found in a field in Diepkloof Extension, Soweto, on the morning of November 15 1988. The two were taken to a state mortuary and later buried as unidentified people with a large group of paupers in Avalon cemetery. The families identified them from photographs taken of the bodies.
The remains will be analysed for DNA and to determine the exact cause of death as part of the state's murder investigation.
"Further investigations into the deaths... are being conducted by the SA Police Service," the NPSA said.
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